Moby Monday — The Wind(lass)y City

“Moby-Monday”, a collaborative web project curated by Meg Guroff, editor of Power Moby-Dick and published each Monday morning on the Sea-Fever blog, is re-posted here with their permission.

Chicago does Melville this month as artist Tim Vermeulen, known for his “obsessive self-portraiture,” exhibits paintings based on iconic passages of Moby-Dick, a book the show’s description calls “one of the strangest productions in the history of all the arts.” Vermeulen’s paintings are on display at Chicago’s Packer Schopf Gallerythrough February 13.

Meanwhile, puppeteer Blair Thomas and singer/songwriter Michael Smith will present a new “chamber puppet cantata” version of the book at Millennium Park January 28 through 30. This marks the first time your none-too-hardy correspondent has ever wanted to visit Chicago during January.